The next best gift, the Planet Heroes rocket ship.

The Happiest Kid You Have Ever Seen

Ryan managed to find his big Christmas gift before it was wrapped. He was hysterical, so we let him have it early. I was disappointed, but he was estatic!

Chirstmas morning we got home from Oskaloosa at 12:00 am. Ryan was up at 4 am. Todd managed to keep him in his room until 6:30, and then he and I watched cartoons until about 8:15, when he suddenly looked over and noticed Santa had been there! He was wound up all day and finally collapsed on my lap at 7:45 pm.

Don't Be Jealous Girls!

I can't believe I actually won something!

Blogger won't let me post the picture of my winnings.

I WON!!!

Last time I was at Archiver's I filled out an entry slip for their sweepstakes. I didn't win the $250, but I did win a Doodlebug 8 x 8 album and 12x12 paper pack. All the paper is black, which is interesting. Some of it is glittery and some is flocked. This was a happy moment in kind of a crappy week. I have strep throat again for the 2nd time in 30 days and Todd was out of town. Luckily Ryan was very understanding and entertained himself. The other good news is Todd's mom made it through her surgery well and should be home tomorrow.

Sigh...

So I've got this superbad chest cold and have been awake since 4:30 am. Today at 12:45 I went to bed to take a nap while Todd watched Ryan. 20 minutes later Ryan wakes me up - Todd is sound asleep on the couch.

At 3:00 we put Ryan down for his nap and I run to Dahl's for cough medecine. I arrive home 25 minutes later and Todd is sound asleep on the couch, and Ryan is amok in the kitchen. I wake Todd up and tell him I'm home. He says ok - Ryan's taking a nap. I say - oh no he isn't!

I need to cut him some slack though, his gout foot is killing him with throbbing pain. We are going to the rheumatologist tomorrow. I really don't understand how it can be eating the bone away in his foot and they aren't doing anything.

Foiled Again

I have been dreaming of having a day where it was just me in the house, and I could catch up on whatever I wanted. Yesterday was that day, and it sucked. I have a super nastly cold (thanks Ryan), and only managed to go to my hair appointment and Target before collapsing on the couch. I don't think I am going to get my Karen Foster advent calendar made before Christmas. My house is trashed too because I did a 3.5 hour conference call on Friday and Ryan made some horrible messes while I was on the phone. He was home because daycare was closed, and he doesn't like it when I don't pay attention to him!

One good thing - I almost ready the whole Twilight book yesterday. Edward does sound dreamy.

Misc.

Winter scene from our backyard and some of Ryan's fall crafts from preschool. I love the turkey and pumpkin, they are just lunch bags full of paper.